Two-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah dominated the first stage of the event on Monday. Al-Attiyah, who now drives for Toyota after leaving Mini, finished in 25m41s, 24 seconds ahead of Spanish former WRC driver Xavier Pons (Ford) and 29 seconds ahead of Spain's Nani Roma (Toyota). However, Al-Attiyah required a tow after mechanical problems at the end of the stage. Peugeot was a bit furt...

American off-road and rally racer Bryce Menzies has been forced to withdraw from the 2017 Dakar Rally as a result of a kneecap injury suffered during a long-jump world record attempt in August. Menzies crashed his Pro2 truck in a practice run but still managed to blow past the world record with a training jump of 379.2 feet over a New Mexico ghost town â besting the previous record at 332 feet. H...

Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Shootout @ Old Tucson, in Tucson, AZ. The April 22-23, 2017 event will attract action motorsports fans from all over the Southwest Region. This event promises to offer outstanding racing, Wild West flare, and entertainment activities for all ages in a family-friendly atmosphere. Ticket prices for the two-day event range from $25 General Admission to $72 f...

The Baja Ridgeline has shown great durability and pace, winning its class in several previous offroad races. The team showed good speed in Day 1 and hoped to put themselves in position for a podium finish.

Las Vegas' Rob MacCachren, with an assist from co-driver Jason Voss, drove to the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck victory Saturday at the 49th annual SCORE Baja 1000. The victory gave the veteran MacCachren a three-peat in the world's toughest, roughest, longest and most prestigious continuously-held desert race. When the results became official Sunday morning, the MacCachren/Voss duo finished the...

Above: Rob MacCachren, shown here in in short course competition, will roll off fifth in the SCORE Trophy Truck category in the Baja 1000. With the conclusion of registration on Thursday, 277 total entries have been processed as official entries for Friday's start of the 49th SCORE Baja 1000, the final round of the four-race 2016 SCORE World Desert Championship. Starting and finishing in Ensenada...

The team at Rothsport Racing is proud to announce participation in the 2017 NORRA MEXICAN 1000. This stage rally format event is being held on the Baja Peninsula April 21-28, 2017 and is open to various vintage off-road vehicles. They have collaborated with Richard Tuthill, of the very successful Tuthill Porsche Rally Team and will be preparing five air-cooled 911-based cars using Tuthill's prove...

Speed League, an international racing league recently founded by Global Rallycross creator and ESPN X Games sport organizer Brian Gale, announced today it will bring high-level, off-road action motorsport racing to the Wild West at Old Tucson. The race will take place April 22 & 23, 2017, in Tucson, AZ, at the iconic old west venue where more than four hundred movies and other commercial projects...

For the first time in series history, Red Bull Global Rallycross will crown a champion at the end of a double-header event. The Port of Los Angeles, one of the series' most iconic host venues, will set the stage for an exciting Supercar finale. LAST RACE: Tanner Foust broke one winning streak and kept another alive last month at Evergreen Speedway, as Red Bull GRC returned to the Seattle market. ...

Hyundai Motorsport's i20 R5 has been delayed by last-minute homologation complications, forcing works driver Kevin Abbring to miss the Tour of Corsica shakedown. The Dutchman and his British co-driver Sebastian Marshall were forced to sit out final preparations for France's World Rally Championship event, while the FIA finalised its checks on Hyundai's all-new car for the WRC2 feeder class and ot...

X-raid team principal Sven Quandt is confident BMW's increased commitment to cross-country rallying will be enough to take his team back to Dakar victory. BMW Motorsport director Jens Marquardt confirmed the move on Tuesday morning as part of a raft of announcements from Munich, including a return to Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship and details of its Formula E tie-up with the Andrett...

A devastated Robby Gordon told assembled media he and his family are mourning his father, Robert, and Robert's wife Sharon after they were found dead in their Orange home on Wednesday afternoon. "Obviously, we're grieving the loss of my dad Bob and his wife Sharon," Gordon said outside the family home. "I grew up on this property my whole life, I learned all about everything about motorsports at ...

The father of former NASCAR racer and Stadium Super Trucks driver-owner Robby Gordon and sister Beccy was found dead along with his wife in their Orange, California, home on Wednesday afternoon. Robert, 68, and Sharon, 57, were identified by the Orange County coroner. In a statement, the Orange Police Department said a 911 call was received at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday indicating there were two b...

Double threat CJ Greaves had a dominant weekend in Minnesota, topping the PRO 4WD and PRO 2WD podiums on both days of championship racing as TORC: The Off-Road Championship raced at ERX Motor Park for the first time. The seventh and eighth races on the 2016 national championship saw huge and hospitable crowds turn out to the new Minneapolis-area track to see TORC Series action, as well as excitin...